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Show SITS IN A 8WING WHEN HE MILKS HIS COW In the Current Issue of Farm and Fireside appears a department called the Headwork Shop, In which readers read-ers give each other the benefit of practical suggestions growing out of experience In farm work. Following Is one man's account of tho best kind of milk stool that ho has been able to discover: "My best milk stool Is a swing. I took three strands of No. 9 smooth wire and stretched them in tho cow stable about 2 1'2 feet otfer tho cow's hips, tho whole length of tho Btablo. I anchored thorn well to a beam at each end and twisted tho wires Into a tight cablo by means of an Iron rod. "I put a largo harness snap on tho cablo and suspend a swing with two small ropes so that tho seat was tho right dlstanco from tho floor. My milking stool Is always clean and out of tho way. I can walk from ono cow to another and the snap slides down tho cable until I am ready to sit down to milk ogaln. This swing makes it much easlor for tho milker milk-er to dodgo the kick of an unruly Ieow, as ho can easily push himself back without rising from tho stoop- ing position." - |